Scientific Publications by ReefQuest Centre Staff

Papers in Print

Martin,
R.A. 2004.
Evolution and zoogeography of freshwater elasmobranchs. Presented at August
2004 International Congress on the Biology of Fish, Manaus, Brazil, and
extended abstract published in Symposium Proceedings.

Martin,
R.A., and J.
Treberg. 2002. Biology of Deep-Sea Sharks: a Review. Presented at July 2002
International Congress on the Biology of Fish, Vancouver, Canada, and
extended abstract published in Symposium Proceedings.

Martin, R.A. In prep.
First report of agonistic display in Hexanchus griseus,a
squlomorph shark, with comments on conservation of display elements across
phyletic lines. [slated for Canadian Journal of Zoology]

Martin, R.A. In prep.
What do White Sharks eat? [A critical analysis of WS diet, demonstrating
this species is not a marine mammal specialist but a broad-spectrum
opportunist employing numbers maximisation rather than energy maximisation
as its OFS]. Slated for “Ghoti” Section of Fish Biology and Fisheries,
invited by Dr. Tony Pitcher, Director of UBC Fisheries Centre.

Martin, R.A., and N.
Hammerschlag. In prep. Agonistic display in the Galapagos Shark (Carcharhinus
galapagensis), with comments on agonistic displays in other carcharhinid
sharks [slated for Marine and Freshwater Research]

Martin, R.A., N.
Hammerschlag, K. Rossmo,
and . In prep. Application of Geographic Profiling to the
study of White Shark predatory behaviour at Seal Island, South Africa
[slated for Nature.]